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Louis-Michel Vanloo
This painter was attached to the Spanish court1. I don't know why he's no longer there, but he's certainly a great artist.
The Portrait of the author, accompanied by his sister and working on his father's...
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[p.88]
HALLÉ
There's a sect of point-makers here, of which Mrthe Chevalier de Chastelux1 is one of the first apostles. They're so bad that it's almost one of the characters of a good spirit not to hear them. One day Wilks2 said to the knight...
[339]
[To my friend Mr. Grimm 1]
Blessed forever be the memory of him who2, by instituting this public exhibition of paintings, excited emulation among artists3, prepared all orders of society4, and especially to men of taste, a useful...
[117] You've come just in time, Chardin, to recreate my eyes that your colleague Challe had mortally afflicted1. So here you are again, great magician, with your silent compositions! How eloquently they speak to the artist2! what they tell him about...
[408] If I've been long on painters, on the other hand I'll be short on sculptors, and I won't have a word to say about our engravers.
Falconet
[409] O the precious thing that little group of Falconet1! That's the piece I'd have in my...
[p.78]
MICHEL VANLOO
This isn't Carle. Carle is dead. There are two ovals by Michel, one representing Painting, the other Sculpture. They are each 3 feet 8 inches wide, by 3 feet, 1 inch high.
The Sculpture is seated. We see her from...
[p.277]
Sculpture
I love fanatics, not those who present you with an absurd formula of belief and carrying a dagger to your throat, shout: Sign or die ; but rather those who, strongly in love with some particular and innocent taste, see...
[p.367]
Deshays
Deshays is unquestionably the greatest church painter we have. Vien is not his strength in this genre, and Carle Vanloo has given way to him; there is, however, de Vien a certain Piscine1...
I do not balance to pronounce...
[p.240]
Lepicious
My friend, what if we kept on making tales?...
162. William the Conqueror's Descent into England
A general could hardly have made his soldiers understand better that they had to win or die1, than by burning the...
[179]
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[p.393]
GREUZE.
That Greuze really is my man. Forgetting for a moment his little compositions, which will provide me with pleasant things [p.394] to say to him, I come straight to his painting of Piété filiale, which might better be entitled:...
[253]
Fragonard
176. The High Priest Corésus immolates himself to save Callirhoé.
It is impossible for me, my friend, to talk to you about this painting ; you know that it was no longer at the Salon1, when the general sensation it made2,...
[54]
Butcher
I don't know what to say about this man. The degradation of taste, color, composition, character, expression, drawing, has followed step by step the depravity of morals. What do you want this artist to throw onto the canvas? What'...
[p.66]
Happy
15. Emperor Trajan, leaving on a hurried military expedition, dismounts his horse to hear the complaint of a poor woman1.
Large painting intended for Choisy.
The Trajan occupies the center and front of the painting. He is...
[35]
3. Chaste Suzanne. (#000783)
From the same.
Table 7 feet 6 inches high, by 6 feet 2 inches wide.
In the center of the canvas, we see Susanna seated; she has just got out of the bath. Placed between the two old men, she is leaning...